Bug 18000

Summary: All Netscape 4 try to reinstall X, XFree86-aoutlibs thankfully also broken.
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: rorsten <rorsten>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: freebsd-ports (Nobody) <ports>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description rorsten 2000-04-14 08:50:01 UTC 
This will apply for any machine, I think.

When you try to make install ports/www/netscape4*, it will try to
install the aout version of X.  On my machine, it fails dismally.

Fix: 

Get and use the BSDi version of netscape instead of the FreeBSD version.
Manually install by decompressing it and running the ns-install script.
(let it go in /usr/local/netscape as it wishes and then make a symlink
to the executable like
'ln -s /usr/local/netscape/netscape /usr/bin/netscape')
How-To-Repeat: as root: [some netscape] = any netscape port
cd /usr/ports/www/[some netscape]
make install
Comment 1 Akinori MUSHA 2000-04-14 23:09:07 UTC 
At Fri, 14 Apr 2000 00:41:41 -0700 (PDT),
rorsten@ualberta.ca wrote:
> Get and use the BSDi version of netscape instead of the FreeBSD version.

Or the Linux version.

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Comment 2 sada 2000-04-15 02:00:18 UTC 
In article <200004140741.AAA09841@freefall.freebsd.org>
rorsten@ualberta.ca writes:

>> >Synopsis:       All Netscape 4 try to reinstall X, XFree86-aoutlibs thankfully also broken.

The ports should try to install only X aoutlibs, not whole X.

>> >Description:
>> This will apply for any machine, I think.
>> 
>> When you try to make install ports/www/netscape4*, it will try to
>> install the aout version of X.  On my machine, it fails dismally.

Show us exact all messages you have gotten.

>> >Fix:
>> Get and use the BSDi version of netscape instead of the FreeBSD version.

Now BSDi Netscapes are Elf'ened ?
Comment 3 Steve Price freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-04-30 00:17:16 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Sounds like you need to CVSup your ports tree or use the Linux version as 
suggested. :)